A consensus-driven approach seeks to solicit the views of all stakeholders before reaching a decision. This method ensures every voice is heard, fostering a sense of shared ownership and commitment. However, it can be time-consuming and complex, especially in organizations with a wide variety of stakeholders.
A consensus-driven approach seeks to solicit the views of all stakeholders before reaching a decision. This method ensures every voice is heard, fostering a sense of shared ownership and commitment.
Finding The Right Time and Place
Is your organization ready for a decision-making tool.
To answer this question, you need to ask the following questions. (Even if your organization determines that a particular tool isn’t the right choice, the process of making that determination helps clarify how your organization functions.) Is there is a shared sense of frustration with decision.
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Side Effects and Tradeoffs
There is no denying that implementing decision-making maps and instruments can be messy.
In the short term, the tool will test the resilience of the management team, particularly if it exposes an existing process that is convoluted or sorely imbalanced or reveals a complete lack of process.
And its tradeoffs can make people uncomfortable.
Implement.
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The Benefits of Decision-Making Tools
The core purpose of most decision-making tools is to untangle the decision-making process by identifying all activities that must take place for a decision to be made well and within an appropriate time frame.
At their best, these tools give real accountability to the right people, enabling power to be shared but also setting useful boundaries.
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The Rapid Method
Organizations and teams of various sizes confronting various situations have effectively used the tool RAPID (which stands for recommend, agree, perform, input, and decide); we’ll profile that tool here.
RAPID is an acronym for the roles or activities that participants can take on in the decision-making process.
Each letter stands for a specific ro.
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What is a consensus process?
Consensus is a cooperative process in which all group members develop and agree to support a decision in the best interest of the whole.
In consensus, the input of every participant is carefully considered and there is a good faith effort to address all legitimate concerns. (Dressler, 2006) .
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Why do groups need consensus decision-making?
If groups want high-quality decisions with strong support for follow through, and they are willing to invest time to create a proposal or plan, they will benefit from consensus decision-making.
Involving all group members in the discussion of issues and making decisions together is a powerful process.
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Why do nonprofit leaders & advisors have a role in decision-making?
Their ability to call on specialized expertise and multiple perspectives helps to shape more effective decisions and manage their consequences.
More recently, though, many nonprofits have become acutely aware that their leaders and advisors—the decision makers—don’t fully reflect the rest of their organizations or their communities.
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Why do nonprofits need more inclusive decision-making?
More inclusive decision making could better factor identity and lived experience into decisions, and also entrust decision making to a broader set of leaders.
It would ultimately drive more equitable progress toward nonprofits’ missions.
